...weighing in at 340 some-odd pages, is
Decomposition, version 7.6 (or is it 9.2? I've lost track), helpfully laid out in a codex-like format, and now intensively training for a late-December 2012 rematch with the triple threats of self-doubt, overweening intellectual ambition, and the ever-elusive happy medium between "academic" and "general interest" prose.
Hoping for the knockout punch this time.